Can you be a new Wordmith
In one of my lower classes there was a lesson in which it was mentioned how two linguistic scholars chided at each other using very intelligent word formations, which apparently looked nice on the face of it, but had indirect chiding.For example one addressed the other as "Gajamukha vaahanaripunayana" and the other immediately retorted with' Dasarathanandana sakhivadana".
Let us see the analytical explanation. Gajamukha – Elephant faced -i.e. Lord Ganesha. Gajamukha Vaahana is the vehicle of Ganesha-i.e. mouse. Gajamukhavaahanaripunayana is one having the eyes of the enemy of the vehicle of Gajamukha" - enemy of rat meaning cat. So the final meaning is cat-eyed. He called the other person a cat-eyed which is a little demeaning.
Similarly " Dasarathanadana sakhi vadana meant 'one who is having the face of the friends of Dasaratha' son. Dasaratha's on Lord Rama had the friendship of monkeys and hence (the meaning here is) one who has the face of Rama's friends Monkey or plainly 'Monkey-faced'.
We can find many such built up words in Sanskrit literature and even in common slokas we render daily. I guess there may be such similar words in many Indian languages too, as most of them have roots in or influence of Sanskrit.
I am aware there are many such long compound and complex words in modern English usage, but almost all of them are technical names related to medicines and medical field.
Can you give some examples from English from literature or common usage? What such words are called in Grammar?
